When Ganling was built, it was in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, with strong national strength, grand cemetery scale and magnificent architecture, and was called "the crown of emperors' tombs in past dynasties".
According to the investigation by archaeologists, the inner city of the cemetery is square, with a length of 1450m from north to south, 1582m from east wall and 1438m from west wall, with a total area of about 2.3 million square meters. There are many magnificent buildings in the city, such as 60 courtiers, such as the memorial hall, wing, cloister, Quelou and Di Renjie, as well as the ancestral temple and Xiagong.
The tomb of Ganling underground palace is located in the southeast mountainside of Liangshan main peak, which consists of trenches and caves. Trench depth 17m, all filled with stone strips with length 1.25m and width of 0.4-0.6m The pyramid-shaped mound is in a slope shape, with a total length of 63. 1 m and an average width of 3.9m.. The stone strips are overlapped along the slope from south to north, with a total of 39 floors, 465,438+00 exposed on the plane, and 8000 stones for the 39 floors.
The stone bar is fastened with dovetail-shaped thin waist iron bolt plate, and the hole between the upper and lower parts passes through with iron bar, and molten tin-iron juice is poured to blend with the stone bar.
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The first person to go to Ganling was Huang Chao, the leader of the late Tang Rebel Army. Among the leaders of peasant rebels in past dynasties, his reactionary degree is second only to that of Zhang in the late Ming Dynasty. After the salt merchants led 600,000 troops to capture Chang 'an, they first burned, killed and looted. When the bandit had had enough fun, he suddenly found himself with nothing to do. As a matter of fact, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was gathering strength to prepare for the counterattack.
At this time, someone told him that a lot of gravel was buried under the loess in the west of Liangshan. The news suggests that Huang Chao, the richest entrance of Ganling in Tang tombs, is likely to be on the west side of Liangshan, and gravel is likely to be the remaining raw materials after Ganling is built. Huang Chao exultation, immediately bring up 400000 soldiers, ran to the west of liangshan began to dig.
These people are farmers and are very skilled in using shovels. Soon, they leveled half of Liangshan, leaving a 40-meter-deep "Huang Chao ditch". However, Ganling seems to have no entrance at all. Later, the troops of the Tang Dynasty rallied to launch a counterattack against Chang 'an, but Huang Chao was unwilling to flee empty-handed.
Huang Chao, who claims to be a scholar, is so stupid that he simply knows that Ganling faces south. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty deliberately buried the gravel produced by the construction in a place more than 300 meters away from the tomb door. In other words, he dug in the wrong direction, which shows that an uneducated person can never become an upstart, because money or soldiers are not resources that benefit one side, but poisons that waste people's money and harm the world.
The second person who extended an evil hand to Ganling was Wen Tao, the envoy of Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties. It seems that this man was born to make trouble for the mausoleum of Emperor Li Tang. Before Ganling, 17 Tang tombs had been excavated, and only Ganling was left.
But his ideal was shattered here. Huang Li can be classical. He also wanted tens of thousands of troops to dig Ganling in broad daylight, only to be blown down by the wind and rain three times. The weather cleared up immediately when the troops retreated. Tao Wen really didn't understand what was going on, but he didn't keep digging, so he gave up the idea. Gan Ling escaped the second robbery at this point.
The most dangerous thing is the third time. This time, it is not an army of 400,000, but a modern reorganization division. The tools of grave robbery are no longer hoes and shovels, but machine guns and cannons that cut stones like vegetables.
The mastermind was Sun Lianzhong, a Kuomintang general in the Republic of China. He led his men to learn how Sun Dianying blew up the tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi and Qianlong, buried a pot in Liangshan to cook and set up camp. Under the cover of military exercises, black powder blasted the pyramid-shaped mound and erected three layers of stones.
Just as I was about to go in, a thick smoke suddenly appeared, spiraling up and turning into a tornado. Suddenly, the sky was dark, and rocks were flying everywhere, flying sand and stones. Seven soldiers in Shanxi province were the first to bear the brunt and immediately vomited blood and died. Where the others dared to go any further, they ran out with a shout.
It is said that there are few survivors in one regiment of General Sun. The local people said, "Because Wu Zetian is from Shanxi, he hates people from his hometown to dig her grave, so the soldiers in Qixin will die." In this way, Gan Ling finally escaped the last bullet.
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